EP2929975A1 - Au-sn-bi-legierungspulverpaste, au-sn-bi-legierungsdünnschicht und verfahren zur herstellung einer au-sn-bi-legierungsdünnschicht - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to an Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film, a method for forming an Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film, and an Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder paste.
- the present invention relates to a method for forming an Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film to which a printing method using an Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder paste can be applied, and which can form an Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film which is both uniform and thin while securing good bondability, and can reduce costs due to a reduction in Au.
- Au-Sn alloy solder is used in bonding of a semiconductor device such as a GaAs optical device, a GaAs high frequency device or a thermoelectric device and a substrate, or package sealing of a SAW filter, a crystal oscillator or the like in which a fine and air-tight seal is needed.
- a semiconductor device such as a GaAs optical device, a GaAs high frequency device or a thermoelectric device and a substrate
- package sealing of a SAW filter, a crystal oscillator or the like in which a fine and air-tight seal is needed.
- the Au-Sn alloy solder contains 15 mass% to 25 mass% of Sn and the balance of Au and inevitable impurities
- the Au-Sn alloy solder which is actually used is made up of an Au-Sn eutectic alloy mainly containing 20 mass% of Sn and the balance of Au and inevitable impurities.
- the Au-Sn alloy solder is processed into a chip shape or a particle shape, and that, for example, at the time of bonding the device and the substrate, a reflow process is performed with interposing the Au-Sn alloy solder which is processed into the chip shape or the particle shape between the bonding bodies to bond them.
- an Au-Sn alloy material is processed into a powder shape, the Au-Sn alloy powder is made into a paste shape by being mixed and kneaded with a commercially available flux to be used as an Au-Sn alloy solder paste.
- the Au-Sn alloy powder is produced by, for example, a gas atomizing method.
- performing bonding by a reflow process after applying the Au-Sn alloy solder paste (for example, see PTL 1 to PTL 3) is also known.
- optical communication apparatus includes a light source such as a light emitting diode (LED) as a light signal generating source.
- a light source such as a light emitting diode (LED)
- LED light emitting diode
- a pad for connection which is made of the Au-Sn alloy, is formed by accumulation such as vapor deposition or sputtering.
- a method of producing a paste using a particle-shaped Au-Sn alloy material and of forming a pattern by a printing method using the paste is also performed.
- the process cost and time are greatly reduced, and additionally, the loss becomes small since the material can be supplied to only the desired spot. Therefore, the printing method is a very useful bonding material formation method.
- the optical device described above there are difficulties in the case of being applied to the optical device described above. That is, in the mounting of an LED or the like, since optical bonding to a lens, a fiber, and other components with low loss is needed, highly accurate alignment of an optical axis direction, a width direction and a height direction are needed.
- An object of the present invention is to provide an Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder-containing paste, an Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film, and a method for forming an Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film in which the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder-containing paste is produced using a powder material of an Au-Sn-Bi ternary alloy to which Bi is added in order to improve wettability of the Au-Sn alloy, thereby making the application to the printing method easy, the applied Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder-containing paste is melted and solidified by a reflow process to form an Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film which is both uniform and thin while securing good bondability, and costs due to the reduction in Au can be reduced.
- the above-described Au-Sn alloy powder which is used in the Au-Sn alloy solder paste is typically produced using a gas atomizing method including: melting the Au-Sn alloy to form the molten metal; maintaining the molten metal at a temperature of 300°C to 400°C; gravity dropping the molten metal which is maintained at the temperature; ejecting an inert gas to the gravity-dropping molten metal from the vicinity thereof to make the inert gas with high-pressure collide with the dropping molten metal.
- the Au-Sn alloy powder which is obtained by the gas atomizing method has an average particle diameter of 10 ⁇ m to 100 ⁇ m, a surface of the obtained Au-Sn alloy powder is likely to be oxidized, and an oxide film is generally formed on the surface. Since a rosin-based pasting agent is used in order to remove the oxide film, the Au-Sn alloy solder paste is produced by mixing the rosin-based pasting agent with the Au-Sn alloy powder.
- the Au-Sn alloy powder as a raw material of the Au-Sn alloy solder paste immediately after being produced, and typically, the Au-Sn alloy powder is temporarily stored after being produced, and is taken out for use as necessary. Therefore, in the Au-Sn alloy solder paste which is produced by using the pasting agent not containing rosin, the smaller the particle diameter of the Au-Sn alloy powder is, the more insufficient the removal of the surface oxide film which is formed on the surface of the Au-Sn alloy powder is. Hence, the Au-Sn alloy solder not containing rosin may not secure sufficient wet-spreading properties, in comparison with the Au-Sn alloy solder paste which is produced using the pasting agent containing rosin.
- the Au-Sn alloy solder paste using a non-halogen flux is similar thereto.
- the inventors have worked to form an Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film which is both uniform and thin while securing good bondability, and of which the wettability at the time of being bonded is improved by adding Bi to the above-mentioned Au-Sn alloy, as a bonding layer which is formed on a metallized layer of an LED device or substrate, in view of the above problems.
- the formation of the thin Au-Sn alloy bonding layer can be realized by sputtering, vapor deposition or the like, as described above.
- a surface image (secondary electron image, SEI) which is shot by a scanning electron microscope (SEM), is shown in FIG. 1 .
- a composition image (COMP image) and a mapping image of each element by an electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) of an Au-Sn alloy thin film which is formed by sputtering using an Au-Sn alloy sputtering target are shown in FIG. 2 .
- EPMA images are color images, the EPMA images are described after being converted into black and white images depending on a gray scale, in which the higher brightness is, the higher the content thereof is.
- the surface of the Au-Sn thin film of a representative example shows that the Au-Sn thin film is uniform.
- the Au-Sn thin film bonding layer which is formed by sputtering, even if the Au-Sn thin film bonding layer is uniformly and thinly formed on the metallized layer of the LED device, since a melting point of Sn is 232°C and the melting point of Au is 1000°C or more, Au-Sn is molten by incorporating Au into molten Sn after Sn is molten when the Au-Sn thin film is heated in order to load the LED device onto the substrate. Therefore, the heating time becomes long, and the melting properties are deteriorated. Consequently, bonding reliability becomes low, and it is not possible to limit a cost increase due to rework.
- the present inventors applied the paste containing the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder using a printing method on the metallized layer, heated the paste by a reflow process to melt the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder, and then solidified the paste in order to form an Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film on the metallized layer for the bonding of the LED device and the substrate.
- a bonding layer of the Au-Sn-Bi alloy which had a film thickness of 5 ⁇ m or less and was uniform and thin while securing good bondability (wettability) can be obtained by refining the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder and improving fluidity of the paste in order to limit the amount of Au used.
- the fluidity of the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder paste could be improved by using a fine Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder with a particle diameter of 10 ⁇ m or less and increasing the amount of mixed flux. It was found that removal of the oxidation film of the fine powder could be enhanced and the wettability could be improved by using a flux including at least an activator. Moreover, it was found that the amount of the paste applied to the metallized layer can be adjusted easily and the paste could be applied uniformly, in the applying using a printing method.
- the Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film had at least a eutectic structure (for example, lamellar structure) by processing the applied Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder paste using a reflow process to produce the molten Au-Sn-Bi alloy, and then solidifying it, and thereby the melting properties at the time of the bonding could be improved.
- a eutectic structure for example, lamellar structure
- the surface tension thereof at the time of melting was smaller than the Au-Sn alloy by adding Bi (in the case of being compared at the same temperature), and that the Au-Sn-Bi alloy was excellent in wettability, and the bonding reliability thereof at the time of bonding the device was further improved.
- the present invention has been developed from the above findings, and has adopted the following configurations in order to solve the above problems.
- phase diagram in which a phase changes from a liquid phase to a solid phase or from a solid phase into a liquid phase due to a relationship between temperature and an element concentration ratio, in the case that an Au-Sn binary alloy is a eutectic type.
- a eutectic point is present.
- concentration ratio at the eutectic point is Sn 20% and Au 80% (written as Au-20Sn)
- a eutectic temperature thereof is 280°C.
- the Au-Sn alloy becomes a liquid phase, and if the temperature is equal to or less than the eutectic temperature, the Au-Sn alloy enters a solid phase.
- the Au-Sn alloy changes into being in a solid phase from being in a liquid phase at the eutectic temperature.
- a eutectic alloy which is formed when the Au-Sn alloy enters a solid phase has a eutectic structure (for example, lamellar structure) in which an Au-rich portion and a Sn-rich portion are alternately present, and as the eutectic structure, various forms such as a layer-shaped eutectic structure are known.
- a eutectic structure for example, lamellar structure
- various forms such as a layer-shaped eutectic structure are known.
- an Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder paste an Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder that contains 20 wt% to 25 wt% of Sn, 0.1 wt% to 5.0 wt% of Bi, and the balance of Au, is used.
- a solidified Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film includes the eutectic structure in which the Au-rich portion and the Sn-rich portion are alternately present, in the same manner as in an Au-Sn alloy.
- the Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film according to the present invention also includes a eutectic structure.
- the paste of the related art is not suitable for thin film formation.
- the object thereof is to provide a uniform Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film having a thickness of 5 ⁇ m or less by devisal of the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder paste. Further, the melting properties are improved by forming an Au-Sn -Bi alloy thin film which includes at least a eutectic structure.
- the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder which is used in the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder paste according to the present invention has a composition containing 20 wt% to 25 wt% of Sn, 0.1 wt% to 5.0 wt% of Bi, and the balance of Au. If the amount of Sn is less than 20 wt%, the surface tension becomes strong when being melted, and an uneven film is formed. Moreover, if the amount of Sn exceeds 25 wt%, the Au-Sn alloy deviates from the eutectic alloy, that is, the amount of the eutectic structure of the Au-Sn alloy film becomes small, and thereby the wettability is lowered. Thus, it is preferable that the amount of Sn be 20 wt% to 25 wt% in the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder.
- the amount of Bi in the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder is less than 0.1 wt%, it is not possible to obtain the effect of lowering of the surface tension of the powder while being melted. If the amount of Bi exceeds 5.0 wt%, the melting point of the Au-Sn-Bi alloy is lowered, thereby undermining an advantage of a high temperature solder.
- a base layer for example, Ni or the like
- an Au metallized layer is formed on the surface of the base layer, in consideration of the wettability with the base layer.
- Au of the metallized layer is incorporated into the melted Au-Sn alloy, and the Au concentration in the alloy increases. Therefore, in consideration of a loss of the concentration balance in the Au-Sn alloy, the Sn content in the Au-Sn alloy powder is determined. Additionally, the thinner the film becomes, the larger the influence of the loss becomes.
- the particle diameter of the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder is 10 ⁇ m or less on average. If the particle diameter exceeds 10 ⁇ m, for example, when the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder paste is applied to the predetermined region on the metallized layer by a screen printing method, a filling failure occurs, and there is a possibility that the film thickness becomes uneven. If the particle diameter is large, at the time of melting, a dewetting (shrinkage) phenomenon occurs, and thus, it is not preferable. Therefore, it is preferable that the particle diameter of the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder be 10 ⁇ m or less on average.
- the flux which is used in the solder paste as defined by Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS, for example, JIS Z 3284: 2006 (which is the standard relating to the solder paste defining classification or the like of the flux)) is known to include an activator having a cleaning action which removes an oxide of the metal surface by a chemical action.
- the composition of the oxidation film which can be removed is determined based on degrees of activity of the flux. Therefore, the more stable metal the oxidation film includes, the stronger the activity thereof is required.
- a non-halogen flux which does not include an activator is used.
- an RA (Rosin Activated) flux or the like is known as an active flux.
- the RA flux is a flux to which a basic organic compound as an activator is added, and is a flux with the strongest activity of the old MIL standard (United States Military Standard).
- MIL standard United States Military Standard
- JIS Z 3197 test method of the flux for soldering
- a flux including at least an activator is mixed with the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder.
- the amount of the flux mixed with the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder is 15 wt% to 30 wt% of the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder paste.
- a fine powder with a particle diameter of 10 ⁇ m or less is used as the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder, but if the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder becomes a fine powder which have a particle diameter of 10 ⁇ m or less, an active type flux including an activator, is necessary for the removal of a natural oxidation film (SnO) which is formed on a powder surface.
- an active type flux including an activator is necessary for the removal of a natural oxidation film (SnO) which is formed on a powder surface.
- the non-halogen flux which does not include the activator since a reduction action thereof is weak, it is not possible to remove the natural oxidation film completely.
- the RA flux is mixed at 15 wt% to 30 wt%.
- a mixing ratio (flux ratio) is less than 15 wt%, since it is difficult to thinly apply the paste, it is not possible to form a thin film. On the other hand, if the mixing ratio exceeds 30 wt%, the film may be uneven. Therefore, it is preferable that the mixing ratio of the RA flux be 15 wt% to 30 wt%, in consideration of the fluidity of the paste at the time of the screen printing, and removability of the natural oxidation film.
- the Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film including at least a eutectic structure is formed by screen printing the above-described Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder paste, in the predetermined region on the metallized layer, and subsequently, melting and then solidifying the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder paste by a reflow process.
- a screen printing method is adopted, since it is easy to adjust the amount of paste which is applied to the predetermined region on the metallized layer. If the amount of paste becomes small, it is suitable for forming a thin Au-Sn-Bi alloy film.
- the wire diameter of the mesh, the opening ratio, and the thickness of emulsion can be selected, and therefore a volume of paste passing therethrough can be easily adjusted.
- uniform paste printing can be realized. If the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder paste is applied to the metallized layer, the paste is distributed into a dot shape within a predetermined region, and thereby, it is possible to further reduce the paste amount, and obtain an Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film having a film thickness of 5 ⁇ m or less.
- stirring is used for mixing of the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder and flux, there is a possibility that bubbles are mixed therein. Since the presence of the bubble influences the uniformity of the film, it is preferable to carry out vacuum defoaming.
- the Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film is formed by screen printing the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder paste in the predetermined region on the metallized layer, and subsequently, by the reflow process, heating, melting and solidifying the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder.
- the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder is temporarily heated and melted, and thereby, in the process of cooling the molten Au-Sn-Bi alloy, the thin film includes at least a eutectic structure, resulting that the melting properties at the time of the bonding are good.
- FIG. 3 a photograph of the surface image (SEI) which is shot by a scanning electron microscope (SEM) is shown.
- SEM scanning electron microscope
- FIG. 4 a composition image (COMP image) and a mapping image of each element by the electron probe microanalyser (EPMA) are shown.
- the Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film of the present invention has a eutectic structure in which an Au-rich portion and Sn-rich portion are alternately present, and the added Bi is present at the same spot as Sn.
- FIG. 5 a graph showing a result of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC measurement) according to a representative example of the Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film of the present invention is shown. The graph shows one endothermic peak and one exothermic peak in the heating process and the cooling process. This shows a eutectic composition in which a phase change from the solid phase to the liquid phase, or from the liquid phase to the solid phase at a certain temperature occurs.
- the Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film according to the present invention also includes a eutectic structure having a eutectic point.
- the present invention since application is easy by the printing method of the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder paste, and moreover, a eutectic structure is formed by heating, melting and then solidifying an Au-Sn alloy powder paste, it is possible to form an Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film which is both uniform and thin while securing good bondability (wettability), as a bonding layer. Therefore, in loading an LED device or the like onto a substrate, it is possible to achieve cost reduction due to the reduction in Au, and it is possible to form an Au-Sn-Bi alloy bonding layer which is both uniform and thin. Accordingly, the present invention contributes to productivity improvement of the apparatus onto which the LED device is loaded.
- the molten metal was mechanically stirred by rotating a propeller for 3 hours at 800 rotation/min. Then, the molten metal was dropped from a nozzle provided in a bottom portion of the high frequency melting furnace by applying a pressure of 500 kPa thereto, and simultaneously, Ar gas was ejected from a gas nozzle having a diameter of 1.5 mm which was arranged so as to have a nozzle gap of 0.2 mm in the vicinity of the nozzle with an injection pressure of 6000 kPa toward the molten metal which was dropping.
- gas-atomized powder of the Au-Sn-Bi alloy was manufactured.
- the metal composition (wt%) of the obtained atomized powder is shown in Table 1.
- the gas-atomized powder was classified by an air classifier, and an Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder having a particle diameter of 10 ⁇ m or less was obtained, as shown in Table 1.
- the composition of the Au-Sn-Bi alloy is adjusted in the melting stages.
- the manufactured Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder pastes of Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 to 8 was applied to a predetermined region of a substrate using a screen printing method.
- gap printing was performed by using a mesh mask which had an opening of 33 ⁇ m, the number of mesh of 500, the wire diameter of 18 ⁇ m, and the thickness of 29 ⁇ m.
- ANi layer was formed on the substrate, and an Au metallized layer was formed on the Ni layer.
- the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder paste was applied to the metallized layer.
- the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder was heated and melted by performing a reflow process at a temperature: 300°C, and thereby a molten film of the Au-Sn-Bi alloy was formed on the Ni layer. Thereafter, the molten film solidified by being cooled to a room temperature, thereby forming Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin films of Examples 1 to 7 and Comparative Examples 1 to 8.
- the film thickness was measured by a laser microscope. A case in which a uniform film of 5 ⁇ m or less was obtained was evaluated as "good".
- the Au-Sn alloy thin film of Comparative Example 9 shows that the good results were obtained regarding the uniformity of the film and the thinning of the film, but the bondability of the device was determined to be low, and the bondability was not good.
- the Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin films of Examples 1 to 7 it was possible to form the films which were sufficiently thin films having the thicknesses of 5 ⁇ m or less and uniform films. Therefore, by using the Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin films of Examples 1 to 7, when the LED device was loaded onto the substrate, in comparison to the related art, it was confirmed that the bondability could be greatly improved.
- an Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film which has the thickness of 5 ⁇ m or less and includes the eutectic structure could be formed by using an Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder paste that mixes the Au-Sn alloy powder containing 20 wt% to 25 wt% of Sn, 0.1 wt% to 5.0 wt% of Bi, and a balance of Au, and having a particle diameter of 10 ⁇ m or less with an RA flux of 15 wt% to 30 wt%, screen printing the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder paste in a predetermined region on the Au metallized layer, and subsequently, heating, melting and then solidifying the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder.
- the Au-Sn-Bi alloy powder paste, the Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film and the method for forming the Au-Sn-Bi alloy thin film of the present invention a cost reduction and a productivity improvement can be made in loading an LED device or the like onto a substrate.
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